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Leonard Schoppa, "The Slow Way Home: Civic Engagement and Walkability in Japanese Neighborhoods"

- | Silverman 280, Penn Law

What drives differences across countries in levels of civic engagement? Both the United States and Japan have been described as having high levels of civic engagement, but a variety of measures show that the type of…




Ruth Mostern, "Levees and Levies: Approaching Yellow River History With Spatial and Historical Datasets”

- | Stiteler Hall, B21

This presentation describes an in-progress digital atlas of the Yellow River, a project in Chinese and environmental history at the scale of the entire Holocene era.  The spatial and historical data that I am…




Cheng Chen, "The Return of Ideology: The Search for Regime Identities in Post-Communist Russia and China"

- | Stiteler Hall B26

CSCC Speaker Series

Film Screening, "A Drop of Life: The Global Water Crisis and It’s Unique Impact on Women"

- | International House, 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Filmmaker and eco-activist Shalini Kantayya will present her award-winning sci-fi short film about the global water crisis, A Drop of Life, and discuss the borderless global water crisis’…




Penn Humanities Forum Film Series, Windtalkers

- | International House Philadelphia

Translation Trouble 

A Film Series presented by Penn Humanities Forum in collaboration with Cinema Studies and International House Philadelphia with Cinema Studies and…




Symposium on Gender, Embodiment, and Asian Religions

- | Van Pelt Library, Room 241 (Class of 1955 Conference Room)

 

Angela Zito (New York University), author of Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in 18th Century China; DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social…




February Japanese Film Series: Tokyo Family

- | Cohen Hall, 402

親子映画：日本の家族ドラマ

Yamada Yōji, Tokyo no kazoku (Tokyo Family), 2013

In this update of Yasujiro Ozu’s “Tokyo Story”, a retired schoolteacher and his wife visit their three…




Justine Guichard, "A Korean Murder Case at the Intersection of Migration and Crime in Late 1950s Philadelphia"

- | Claudia Cohen Hall, Room 402

Korean Studies Colloquium—"A Korean Murder Case at the Intersection of Migration and Crime in Late 1950s Philadelphia"

CSCC Policy Roundtables, "China-Taiwan Relations in the Tsai Ing-wen Era"

- | Perry World House, 3803 Locust Walk

China-Taiwan Relations in the Tsai Ing-wen Era 

Richard von Glahn, "The Transformation of the East Asian Maritime World in the 16th-17th Centuries"

- | Stiteler Hall, B26

Penn Humanities Colloquium